Needle



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL CAESAR, OF LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK.

NEEDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,926, dated November2, 1897.

Application filed June 14, 1897- Serial No. 640,742. (Model) To allwhom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL CAESAR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Long Island City, in the county of Queens and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Needles, ofwhich the following is a full and complete specification, such as willenable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

[ W This invention relates to needles; and the object thereof is toprovide an ordinary nee- Ll die with an eye which is so formed that thethread will notpull out in operating the needle.

"The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which- Figure 1 is aside View of my improved needle, and Fig. 2 a View at right anglesthereto with the end thereof in which the eye is formed in section.

The needle in each of the views is shown on an enlarged scale, and inthe drawings forming part of this specification the separate parts of myimprovement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each ofthe views, and in the practice of my invention I provide a needle 5,which is provided with an I oblong eye 6, and the outer end of the eyeof the needle is contraoted, as shown at 7, so as 0 to form a narrowslot 'or portion into which the thread will be wedged in the operationof the needle or in pulling the thread through the cloth or othermaterial, so as to securely hold the thread in said eye and to preventthe 3 5 same from pulling out of orbeing disconnected from the eye ofthe needle.

The outer end of the eye of the needle is also closed by a narrowwedge-shaped portion 8 and the sides of the needle adjacent there" o arebent inwardly, thereby forming the re- 40' duced portion of the slot,whereby the thread does not enlarge th e h.ole.made.b5tiil fili 9l i leJ ,'n th fam'd the inner end wall of the eye of the needle is alsopreferably beveled at its opposite sides, as shown at 9, and from thisconstruction it is also evident that in drawing the thread into thereduced portion of the eye the side forming the same will yield to thethread and act as a spring-clamp to hold the same therein and willreduce the danger of cutting the thread to a minimum.

My improvement is simple in construction and operation, and by meansthereof the thread will be securely held in the eye of the needle at alltimes, no matter how short the end thereof which passes through the eyeis.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- As an improved article of manufacture, a needleprovided at one end with a slotted extension, the sides of which arebent inwardly adjacent to the end and connected by a wedge shapedportion whereby an eye is formed having a reduced extension at the outerend, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 11th day of June,1897.

- EMIL CAESAR.

Witnesses O. Gnnsr,

L. R. MAHONY.

